Car-fender.



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A'PATIENTED MAY 24,1904,

Patented May 24, 1904.

PATENT JOHN c. oooPEn, or BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 760,781, dated May 24, 1904.

Application filed March 4, 1904:.

To a. whom it ntaly concern:

Be it known that LJOHN C. COOPER, a citizen of the United States of America, and aresident of Baltimore city, State of Maryland, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in (Jar-Fenders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to afender for streetcars, and has for its object to provide a fender which will not only receive and carry a person who may be struck while standing, but also which will pick up a person who maybe lying on the ground.

My fender is so constructed that when it strikes an object it will automatically drop at its front edge to the surface of the ground and permit a person lying on the ground to roll into the fender over the front edge of the netframe, which consists merely of a chain covered with rubber hose.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my fender set for usual use.

Fig. 2 repre sents the fender when depressed to the ground by resistance presented to the front edge. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the fender in usual working position.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a pair of arms pivoted to the front of the car and suspended at a suitable elevation by the chains 3 is a frame consisting of three sides of metal rods or pipes, and the front side 4 consisting of a chain covered with a gum hose. this frame is suspended a net 5, which must be baggy-that is to say, it must-be large enough to permit the net to rest upon the groundwhen the frame isin the position shown in Fig. 2. I i

The frame 3 is pivoted in the ends of the arms 1 1 at a point forward of the center of From Serial No.-196,775. (No model.)

hooks having up wardlyturned ends, one pivoted'to the front end of the frame 3 on each side and adapted to engage the lugs 6 6 and hold its frame in its normal position.

The operation of my device is illustrated in the drawings. When an object on the track, whether a person or an inanimate object, is struck by the fender, the front end of the fender, which stands normally as near the ground as the irregularities of the surface will permit, is depressed into contact with the surface and presents to the object only the thickness of the front edge of the frame, which is not more than one inch in diameter,over which it has to roll. The forward motion of the car will force the front edge of the fender underneath the person or object on the ground and cause it to roll into the net, which is meanwhile resting on the ground. As soon as the front edge of the frame 3 has passed under the body it will rollback toward the car in the net and pull the net down into a horizontal .position, in which position the body may be carried in the net any distance in safety.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letter Patent, is-

' 1. In a car-fender, the combination of a frame, the front edge of which is flexible, the frame being pivoted on supporting arms which maintain it at a desired elevation in front of a car, with means for maintaining the frame at any desired angle with the horizontal,

vthe frame being adapted when struck upon its front edge to tilt downward into contact with the ground, and at the same time to release its holding means so that when pressure on its front edge is relieved it may fall back to a horizontal position.

2. In a car-fender, the combination of a the ground, and when released fall back into a frame from which a net is suspended, a pair horizontal position, substantially as described. 10 of supporting-arms secured to the front of the Signed by me at Baltimore city, State of cal-and to which the frame is pivoted ata point Maryland, this 1st day of March, 1904.

5 forwardof the center of its sides with means JOHN C. COOPER.

of supporting the frame at a desired angle, Witnesses: the frame being adapted when struck at its H. B. VVILLIAMs,

front edge to tilt downward in contact with J W. WHEELER. 

